Vancouver

Vancouver

2019

Vancouver Established

255K

Global Northeastern Alumni

77%

Jobs Requiring a Post-Secondary Degree

903K

New Jobs Projected By 2028

Northeastern is a global research university and a world leader in experiential learning, with a network of locations in Charlotte, London, San Francisco and the Bay Area, Seattle, Toronto, and now Vancouver.

For more than a century, experience has been at the heart of everything we do. Today, experience has never been more critical—deepening learning and driving our collaborative approach to research.

It also guides our growing global university system. Our multiple locations frame a network that includes 3,000 learning and research partners around the world. This network, which now includes Vancouver, expands opportunities for learners and innovators everywhere to share knowledge, ideas, and discoveries.

What Northeastern Brings to Vancouver

Industry-Aligned Programs

Vancouver’s meteoric rise as a world-class technology centre has created an urgent need for professionals with new skills. Northeastern offers regionally aligned programs that combine challenging course work with relevant professional experiences—including co-op and short-term business projects through our Experiential Network (XN) platform—to help you stand out in the job market. Our programs, designed to fit your schedule, are taught by faculty renowned in their fields and come with access to the academic resources and support of a top-50 U.S. research university.

Research Partnership Opportunities

Northeastern prides itself in designing new ways to partner with companies, often accelerating company innovations. Our faculty research teams bring expertise and new thinking to critical fields such as cybersecurity, data science, coastal sustainability, artificial intelligence, resilience, and robotics—areas aligned with arenas being explored by the Cascadia Innovation Corridor.

A Global Network

Our network of partners extends to more than 3,300 businesses and nonprofits in 150 countries on six continents, as well as 255,000 alumni worldwide. Through this network, our partners gain access to new ideas and approaches to talent development, recruitment, and retention, as well as opportunities to collaborate on high-impact research.

Steve Eccles

Regional Dean and CEO

Steve Eccles brings a unique background to his role at Northeastern, combining corporate C-suite executive experience with post-secondary education innovation and leadership. With a shared values approach to building teams and supporting student success, he focuses on education and workforce development strategies that secure positive economic and social outcomes for British Columbia.

Bethany Edmunds, PhD

Associate Dean, Lead for the Computer Science Faculty

Bethany Edmunds was recently named one of BCBusiness’s Most Influential Women in STEM and Business in Vancouver’s Forty under 40. Her background is in software development, artificial intelligence, and education innovation.

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